SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) experiments seek to determine the distribution of advanced life in the universe through detecting...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Water on the Moon --"The Asteroid Delivery System"
At the beginning of the space age, during the days of the Apollo program, scientists believed the moon to be completely dry. At these earliest...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Beyond the Higgs: Nature's Top Quark Hints the "Universe Could Suddenly Collapse"
In the post-Big Bang world, nature’s top quark — a key component of matter — is a highly sensitive probe that physicists use to evaluate competing...
Global Warming News: "Communicating Via Electrons Help Deep Sea Microbes Gulp Methane"
Good communication is crucial to any relationship, especially when partners are separated...
Top Candidates for Alien Life: "Rocky Planets With Magnetic Fields Orbiting Small Stars"
A planet's magnetic field emanates from its core and is thought to deflect the charged particles of the stellar wind, protecting the atmosphere...
NASA Image of the Year --“Now We Know There is Liquid Water on the Surface of This Cold, Desert Planet"
“It took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold,...
Monday, 28 September 2015
NASA TV: "Water Found on Mars!" View Live
"Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars" - Jim Green, NASA Planetary Science Director via Twitter
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News Flash: NASA TV (View Below) to Live-Stream Major Mars Discovery MONDAY @ 11:30 am ET
NASA will broadcast news about Mars during a press conference Monday (Sept. 28) at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT). During the press conference,...
"Extreme Pulsar Companion Stars" --Confirmed by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA astronomers used ultraviolet images from Hubble to identify the companion stars to two millisecond pulsars located in the globular cluster...
Saturday, 26 September 2015
"Missing Gravitational Waves in the Fabric of the Universe" --Leads to Black Hole Rethink (Weekend Feature)
One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with...
CERN: "The Fundamental Symmetry of the Universe Confirmed" (Week's Most Popular)
Scientists working with ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring, have made...
Massive Dead Galaxies of the Early Universe Observed
An international team led by researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich observed massive dead galaxies in the universe...
New 'Stealth Theory' --"May Explain the Missing Matter of the Universe"
Lawrence Livermore scientists have come up with a new theory that may identify why dark matter has evaded direct detection in Earth-based...
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Newly Discovered Supermassive Black Hole --"Defies Theories of Galaxy-Size Limits"
The central supermassive black hole of a recently discovered galaxy is far larger than should be possible, according to current theories...
A "Just Right" Universe --New Insights from the Quantum World
The big mystery concerning the origin of the universe is how the star clusters, planetary systems, galaxies, and other objects that we now...
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
NASA: Radiation from the Milky Way --"Could Have Had a Profound Effect on Mutation Rates"
Radiation from sources in our galaxy could have had a profound effect on mutation rates throughout the history of life on Earth. Studying...
Anthropocene Global-Warming Tipping Point --"Early Warning Signals Observed"
The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear...
Extreme Star Discovered --Brightest in the Universe With a Massive Magnetic Field
Observations using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the unusually large magnetosphere around an O-type star called NGC 1624-2...
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